Cartoon Wars Part I

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"Cartoon Wars Part I"
Cartman and Kyle race to FOX studios on their big wheels.
Episode no.	142
Airdate	April 5, 2006
South Park - Season 10 March 22, 2006 – November 15, 2006
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This article is about the South Park episode. For the real-life events to which it refers, see Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.

Cartoon Wars Part I is episode 1003 of South Park which aired on April 5, 2006. It is part one of a two part episode arc, which concluded on April 12, 2006 with "Cartoon Wars Part II".

1 Plot
2 South Park vs. Family Guy
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The town panics when Family Guy shows an episode with Muhammad as a character, though he appears only in a brief cutaway drinking tea; leading several townspeople to hide in the Community Center. The episode ends up being censored, but it is revealed that a second half of the two-parter, without censors of Muhammad, will be shown. Kyle, who likes the show, finds no problem and thinks it's wrong to censor Family Guy; shockingly, Cartman actually finds it to be offensive and declares it's wrong to do this. Kyle thinks he is faking, but when Cartman gives an impassioned speech about keeping people from getting hurt, Kyle is guilted and, after a terrible dream where he and his little brother Ike are killed, agrees to go with Cartman to get the episode pulled.

Randy buries Stan's head in sand

A Peter Griffin Flashback With The Image Of Muhammed Censored

The people in South Park, however, decide to literally bury their heads in the sand, as a way of showing Islamists they don't want to insult them; on the way to Hollywood, however, Cartman suddenly reveals something shocking---he simply wants Family Guy taken off the air, and wants to use fear to destroy Freedom of speech. Cartman reveals that people always assume he loves Family Guy, but he finds it stupid, as it uses jokes without having a point to them (see Matt Stone and Trey Parker's opinions on Family Guy.). Kyle and Cartman then start racing on Big Wheels to Hollywood in order to decide the fate of the show.

People literally bury their heads in sand; meanwhile, Kyle loses his Big Wheel as a result of Cartman throwing various objects at him (the Big Wheel also explodes), and yells profanity as a result of not being able get to Los Angeles. President Bush meets with the FOX executives, who say that something secret about the Family Guy writers must be revealed.

At this point, it is suddenly revealed this is a two-part South Park and the conclusion will be explained in the next episode. According to the ending and the "Next Week On South Park" segment, President Bush and Cartman will learn a horrible secret about the Family Guy writers that supposedly "explains everything", while the entire nation buries its head in sand. The Next Week On South Park segment hints that Cartman and Kyle are finally going to have a fight, at last venting years of hatred against each other.

[edit] South Park vs. Family Guy

This episode references the Fox animated series Family Guy, a show often compared to South Park for its raunchiness, despite the fact that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have criticized it. In this episode, the authors claim (using a fake translation from a terrorist video) that the show’s "jokes", often absurd, out-of-continuity cutaways, are interchangeable and have nothing to do with the plot.

[edit] Trivia

In the one of the opening scenes during the townsfolk running into the community centre, a man running through the crowd naked, covering his genitals, looks remarkably similar to the "Chicken Lover" book clerk arrested for bestiality.
Cartman claims that by getting this one episode pulled off the air, Catholics will be able to get episodes sensitive to them pulled as well. This is a reference to the episodes "Trapped in the Closet" and "Bloody Mary", which had been recently pulled from second airings by Comedy Central after pressure from religious groups.